Screening tests can be reassuring, but they have limitations

Friday, December 25, 2009 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

A few weeks ago, a healthy patient in her early 40s came to my office requesting a CT scan of the chest. She was a smoker and wanted to be sure that she didn't have lung cancer.

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